Bucket List: Climbing South-East Asia's Highest Peak
Mount Kinabalu, Kinabalu National Park, Sabah, Malaysia - UNESCO World Heritage Site This was a previous article written by myself and posted in this travelogue blog in September 2014. Mount Kinabalu is located in the island of Borneo and is South East Asia's highest peak at 4,095.2 meters (13,436 ft) above sea level. ****************** Note from the Author : Unlike my other older travel articles on my visits to cities, Mount Kinabalu has probably not changed much over the years. Thus, what I experienced on my trek up this mountain in Dec 2000, is also likely to be what anyone who is ascending the summit today will experience. My first encounters with moutains were in Nepal in 1998 while I was trekking around the Annapurna region of the Himalayas. I also clocked my first peaks there and the highest of these peaks were at altitudes of 3,600 to 3,800 meters (11,811 to 12,467 ft). More than two years later on Christmas Eve of December 2000, I was at the foot of Mount Kinabalu in t